Peninah Mwangi

TL;DR: The qualitative and quantitative evidence demonstrate the extensive harms associated with criminalisation of sex work, including laws and enforcement targeting the sale and purchase of sex, and activities relating to sex work organisation.

TL;DR: This commentary captures the challenges in Kenya posed by daily curfews and lost economic income, coupled with further changes to sex work that increase potential exposure to infection, stigmatisation, violence, and various health concerns.

TL;DR: The study findings reveal that the various restrictions imposed by the government to help curb the spread of COVID-19 to a large extent made it difficult for the sex workers to access their healthcare needs.

TL;DR: The need to expand the focus of interventions to consider local ecologies of security in order to place the local knowledges, tactics, and capacities that communities might already possess on centre stage in interventions is pointed to.

TL;DR: In this article, a media analysis of the impact of Covid-19 on sex workers across the globe was carried out using N=541 media articles identified for the period 1st March to 31st May.